Or that you sign explicit contracts with tier-2 and tier-3 manufacturers and suppliers (since as a startup you're unlikely to get the attention or proper deal terms from a tier 1 like Foxconn), only to have them cut corners on quality and agreed-upon specifications as they try to eke out additional pennies of their own margin.
To make it easier for consumers to comparison shop and to encourage price competition among insurers, the state gives each plan on the exchange an actuarial rating and requires standardized contract terms within four tiers named for metals: bronze, silver, gold and platinum.
Khan told the Guardian: "If Labour wins in May, we won't implement the government's current proposals for two-tier contracting … I will stop the absurdity of the two-tier contract straight away.
Tayloe added that under the new contract, some lower-tier workers will earn $19 to $21 an hour, as much as some top-tier workers.
Before walking out, the workers voted overwhelmingly – by a 94% majority – to authorize a strike and reject Kohler's demand to keep its two-tier contract.
Bill Waddington, chair of the Criminal Law Solicitors Associationn, said: "[The] announcement that the Labour party would drop the proposed two-tier contract is hugely welcome.
Kohler first pressured the United Auto Workers into accepting a two-tier contract in 2010, when Kohler's business was ailing because of the Great Recession and weak housing market.
In the biggest confrontation in years, a 138-day dispute involving 59,000 California supermarket workers, the companies trounced the union, obtaining a two-tier contract that means lower wages and fewer health benefits for new employees.
Mr. Goodwin, the union president, said some members would undoubtedly be upset because the union had accepted a two-tier contract, with new employees put in a worse position than current workers.
